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Studies of feet, a torso and a sleeping apostle for the Agony in the Garden c.1586
Black chalk on blue paper | 24.6 x 18.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906874
Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (1548/51-1608)
Studies of feet, a torso and a sleeping apostle for the Agony in the Garden c.1586
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Two studies of a right foot from the side, one study of the same foot from the front, a study of a torso and a sleeping figure.
The three finely modelled studies of a foot, seen in frontal and lateral view, are connected to Figino's painting of the Agony in the Garden in Santa Maria della Passione in Milan. The foot seen from the front is a detail from the preparatory study of the sleeping apostle at the bottom right hand of the sheet, made for the same painting. Here Figino worked out the anatomically correct depiction of the body without drapery.
For other preparatory studies for the Agony in the Garden by Figino in the Royal Collection see: RCINs 906926, 906928, 906929, 906967, 906968 and 906977v. For other preparatory studies in the Accademia in Venice see: Inv.nos. 621, 960, 961, 974r, 995, 996, 997, 1015, 1040 and 1510v.
Inscribed in pen at lower left: Figino No 13
Provenance
Bequeathed by the artist to Ercole Bianchi in 1608; in the collection of Consul Joseph Smith by 1755; purchased by George III in 1762. Recorded in 'Inventory A', p. 117: '110 Mostly sketches after the Old Masters Raphael, Michel Angelo &c.a.'
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Medium and techniques
Black chalk on blue paper
Measurements
24.6 x 18.8 cm (sheet of paper)
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